Sentences with phrase «many wealthy donors»

Most of their largest gifts, however, come after a wealthy donor dies.

While such rhetoric stirs enthusiasm on the left, she risks irking wealthy donors, including her backers on Wall Street.

Some wealthy donors are approached in a more personal way, like being invited to meet for dinner to hear about a particular fundraising effort.

The group of wealthy donors see giving more funds to the presidential candidate as politically fruitless as Romney continues to trail President Obama in polls, and might prefer to allocate their resources to House and Senate candidates.

One of the biggest trends in philanthropy is wealthy donors getting institutions named after themselves, but there's more than vanity at stake.

During a fundraiser in early 2012, Romney told a group of wealthy donors behind closed doors that 47 percent of the nation is willingly dependent on the government.

As TIME reports in a new story in the upcoming issue of the magazine, Cruz is trying to ride the power of the pews — and the checkbooks of a cadre of extremely wealthy donors — to the Republican presidential nomination.

Next time you're on campus, count the number of plaques that name buildings, wings, theatres and classrooms after wealthy donors and corporations.

, who was indicted by federal authorities in 2011 on charges that he used money from wealthy donors to hide an extramarital affair.

The House Intelligence Committee report released on Friday contained a new bombshell: after the 2016 election, wealthy donors paid a former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) staffer $ 50 million to continue «exposing» Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Dolan told the financial network in an interview on Monday he has heard from Langone that one wealthy donor got the «sense that the Pope is less than enthusiastic about us.»

The church is too afraid to address the moral outrage in fear of losing wealthy donors.

You know you aren't doing your «Wealthy Donors» any favors.

When it came down to budget negotiations the TEAPubs chose to fight on behalf of wealthy donors in opposition to a more progressive package.

Field organizing has been a top priority this year of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and other wealthy donors.

Nixon on Tuesday unveiled a blistering attack on Cuomo's record, taking him to task for wealthy donors and failing to push for liberal values in Albany.

«They will cost us money and we will be competing with the Conservatives, whose wealthy donors have much deeper pockets,» he wrote.

«From the pending ethics investigation against him to his decision to ignore his district in favor of his wealthy donors, people were fed up with Chris Collins and his cronies,» Zellner said.

Lucas said Farage was a «very effective communicator» but denied the Green party had failed by comparison because the Greens lacked the financial backing by wealthy donors enjoyed by Ukip.

Now it looks like he's building up a base — potentially for some future move — aided by the fact that the bulk of wealthy donors live in his county.

However, without offering the kind of tax cuts touted by the Conservatives it's difficult to see how it might attract sufficient support from wealthy donors to make up the shortfall.

A coalition of wealthy donors and activists, meanwhile, have created the group NY - LEAD, meant to spur lawmakers to create the system.

Most of us don't have a wealthy donor waiting in the wings to swoop in at a time of need!

As a result, wealthy donors and the political action committees of unions and corporate interests often give to political party committees that are backing candidates they favor — in addition to, or rather than, the candidates themselves.

He told Syracuse.com he opposes Cuomo's calls for the Legislature to approve public financing of political campaigns, is undecided on closing the LLC loophole that lets wealthy donors contribute almost unlimited amounts to politicians, and is against the governor's call to limit the outside income of lawmakers to 15 percent of their $ 79,500 base salary as legislators.

Nixon is also critical of the widening gap between the rich and poor in the state, accusing the governor of being beholden to «corporate interests and wealthy donors.»

Nixon, an activist, actress and co-star of TV show «Sex and the City,» has echoed the party's criticism of Cuomo as insufficiently liberal, a clandestine enabler of legislative Republicans and beholden to wealthy donors.

And the responses suggest a growing divide between the nation and its highest court on constitutional questions that have moved to the heart of the American system, as the advent of super PACs and the abandonment of public financing by both parties in presidential elections have enabled wealthy donors, corporations and unions to play a greater role in political fund - raising.

It was a choice to sell our government off to corporate interests and wealthy donors, while the rest of us suffer.

Unlike other groups within Labour we don't have any wealthy donors or institutions bankrolling our operations — just ordinary people making donations.

«Pay - to - play contracts and favors for his wealthy donors.

An upcoming campaign fund - raiser for Gov. Andrew Cuomo promises to be a colorful departure from the staid hotel ballroom affairs typically used to court wealthy donors: In June, he'll host a performance of the Broadway show «Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical.»

They point to the role that outside spending by a handful of millionaires played in the Republican presidential primaries by helping to keep Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in the race, and wealthy donors also seem to have made a difference in Dick Lugar's recent downfall.

The leaked YouTube video shows Romney speaking to a group of wealthy donors suggesting that nearly half the country doesn't pay federal income taxes and relies on government assistance.

This is being done for wealthy donors not WNY constituents.

Though the original email suggested that Romney and Republican elites were the target (it included lines like «we need a bold Reagan conservative to debate Obama» and «this campaign is going to continue to rely on millions of patriots from across the country rather than just a handful of wealthy donors and bundlers»), a subsequent message focused on the incumbent:

Questions were raised about Labour's relationship with wealthy donors in 1997 when, following an announcement that a ban on cigarette advertising would include an exemption for Formula 1 racing, it was revealed that the formula 1 chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, had earlier donated # 1 million to the Labour Party.

Assembly Democratic Leader Gordon Hintz says that is the Governor giving back to wealthy donors.

Given the extensive powers of patronage available to the Prime Minister, with seats in the House of Lords and a range of other honours in his gift, dependence on wealthy donors can lead to obvious accusations of honours being traded for cash.

Cuomo, a Democrat, said the new law would reduce the impact of a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United, which helped wealthy donors dramatically increase campaign spending through the use of thinly veiled «independent expenditure» groups to tout or criticize a candidate.

Hou's arrest came two weeks after Xing Wu «Oliver» Pan was indicted on charges of trying to use straw donors to contribute $ 16,000 to Liu's campaign on behalf of an FBI agent posing as a wealthy donor, according to court records..

Wealthy donors, unions and corporations can now dump millions of dollars into political campaigns, seemingly in secret.

Johann Hari said «Peter Mandelson is merrily pushing him as the Blairite who can most attract wealthy donors and remains unrepentant about Iraq.»

«Andrew Cuomo has made a choice, he has surrounded himself with wealthy donors, powerful corporate real estate tycoons, and Wall Street hedge fund moguls,» Nixon said.

She has access to the wealthy donors who help buoy her charter network and enjoys relatively strong name recognition among primary voters.

The Conservatives may be reluctant to accept that limit because of their reliance on a small group of wealthy donors.

«They can start by enacting the Moreland Commission's number one recommendation: passing statewide public financing of elections to level the playing field between wealthy donors and working families.»

Forty - seven per cent of voters said the way the party is funded by wealthy donors is dodgy with just 12 % saying it is «clean».

The findings follow a week in which details of the party's black and white ball, where meetings with cabinet ministers were auctioned off to wealthy donors, were revealed.

«With the public's faith in Albany rapidly eroding, now is the time for Governor Cuomo to enact the Moreland Commission's number one recommendation: pass statewide public financing of elections to level the playing field between wealthy donors and working families,» Lipton said.